OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

[Warren Samples]

On 03/17/2016 01:06 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> I have been discussing the sale of a desktop product (developed with LC, obviously) with a colleague. We’re thinking of direct sales...He’s in the US
>
> ..sell a low volume of product purely as a download with no physical fulfilment...I am not sure about the US.

There is no sales tax charged for any online sales in the US except for 
sales to customers located within a state where the vendor has a 
physical office or point of sale. Your stateside partner probably knows 
this already. As far as software with no physical delivery goes, it 
could be considered several different ways which will vary from state to 
state but again you are only concerned with how the state where he is 
qualifies it. Ask your partner to contact the revenue department of the 
state in which he resides and ask them how to proceed. That would be the 
only state where you have any possible obligation and even then, 
depending on how your partnership/company is structured and how they 
consider this kind of product, you might not have any at all.


https://www.sba.gov/content/collecting-sales-tax-over-internet

http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/businesstaxes/f/onlinesalestax.htm

http://www.inc.com/articles/2003/10/salestax.html

Good luck!

Warren